Nerd Porn: When Jazz Age Chicago had a New Yorker

Posted by Jason Diamond If it wasn’t for New York, Chicago would never be the Second City; or to be more precise: if it wasn’t for famed New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling, Chicago might not have ever been known as the Second City. The Chicagoan was a magazine that lived and died before Liebling’s famous nickname caught on.  It was a counterpart to the New York institution, which got the anthology treatment a few years ago from the University […]

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Nerd Porn: Crime and Punishment on the A train

Posted by Margarita Korol I watched a girl begin a crisp Crime and Punishment today on the A train. I’m sure she picked it up because the cover matched her post-Memorial Day outfit. I silently wished her luck through the utter suffering she would experience if her attention to aesthetics transferred to the 565 pages of angst she got herself into.

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